Quote Originally Posted by KiriA500 View Post
According to Yoshi-P, they have more than enough data to send the game into beta. The Alpha is only going to be a stress test for non-Japanese players to see how the servers work. I highly doubt anything we find will be new to the development team.
There could be something new, perhaps someone goes to a specific place the JP's hadn't and encounter a bug anything can happen, perhaps they changed something which caused a bug, it happens all the time in software development.